Dr. Sandra Úsuga is a lecturer of Modern Languages and Cultures at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. Originally from Colombia, Dr. Úsuga has always strived to serve as a resource, or a bridge, between her students and their community. It is her deeply held belief that access to education is Read more…
Dr. Ranjan Rohatgi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. He has always looked for ways to avoid using expensive texts for his courses. He had used OER in the past, but not in a way that gave him Read more…
Dr. Pamela Scheffler is an ecologist by trade. She is also a professor of Geography, Biology, and Environmental Science, as well as Tropical Ecosystem and Agroforestry Management (TEAM) at Hawaii Community College. Most of her courses do not require a textbook as traditionally texts have been hard to find in Read more…
Laura Wiliamson Ambrose is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Humanistic Studies at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. She learned about LibreTexts from a colleague in the Chemistry department as they worked to enhance the research culture on Saint Mary’s campus. Dr. Ambrose is quick to point out that the Read more…
Dr. Karsten Theis is a professor of Chemistry at Westfield State University in Massachusetts. Dr. Theis discovered LibreTexts in 2017 after he adopted the OpenStax Chemistry textbook and was looking for an easy way for students to access portions of the text without having to download the entire book. Soon Read more…
Dr. Kate Plass, Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College, found herself Googling resources for students in her general, inorganic, and materials Chemistry courses to use in place of expensive texts when she ran across the LibreTexts Chemistry library. What began as a search for materials for her students Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts followers. Welcome to our new faculty profile series. For our first installment we’d like to introduce you to Professor Kristin Kuter, Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. Professor Kuter teaches probability theory and statistics as a two-semester sequence. Materials for these Read more…